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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / July 2008Open Dialog, Details & List the same
Have a problem on XP, Word 2000, with the open dialog view being the same for list and detail. It's not the columns, or at least when scrolling as far right as possible there is nothing to grab or change. I tried winword /a, no difference. Ideas on where to look? Thanks, Mike M. In Details view, you can choose which columns to display. It sounds as if the filename is the only column you're displaying.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA > Have a problem on XP, Word 2000, with the open dialog view being the > same for list and detail. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Thanks, > Mike M. > In Details view, you can choose which columns to display. It sounds as if > the filename is the only column you're displaying. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Thanks, > > Mike M. I hear ya, but I've found no option, button, or right-click, way to modify the columns. Right-click on the columns header does nothing. What version are you using? When I right-click on the Name header in Details view in Word 2003, I get a list of fields and can check the ones I want. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA >> In Details view, you can choose which columns to display. It sounds as if >> the filename is the only column you're displaying. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > I hear ya, but I've found no option, button, or right-click, way to > modify the columns. Right-click on the columns header does nothing. > What version are you using? When I right-click on the Name header in Details > view in Word 2003, I get a list of fields and can check the ones I want. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > I hear ya, but I've found no option, button, or right-click, way to > > modify the columns. Right-click on the columns header does nothing. It's word 2000, SP3. That feature may not have been available in Word 2000, or it may depend on the operating system you're using. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA >> What version are you using? When I right-click on the Name header in >> Details [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > It's word 2000, SP3. > That feature may not have been available in Word 2000, or it may depend on > the operating system you're using. [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > > > It's word 2000, SP3. Hi Suzanne, We have word 2000 on lots of PCs, and to the best of knowledge, only this one has an issue. For example, my PC has no problem with the Details and List view from the open dialog box and I'm running Word 2000 (Note: I cannot change my columns either, but that's not the issue). What I'm wondering now is where Word looks to know the difference between Details and List? Thanks. The issue I was addressing (as being limited to Word 2000) was of being unable to customize the columns. Since the Open and Save dialogs in Word are subsets of Windows Explorer, perhaps the change can/must be made there? SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA >> That feature may not have been available in Word 2000, or it may depend >> on [quoted text clipped - 69 lines] > > Thanks. > The issue I was addressing (as being limited to Word 2000) was of being > unable to customize the columns. Since the Open and Save dialogs in Word are [quoted text clipped - 83 lines] > > > Thanks. No, afraid not. I actually tried a number of applications and Windows Explorer. The Details and List views work just fine except in Word 2000. Well, I don't see how this could be a Registry issue, and, even if it were, I wouldn't know what key to suggest nuking. And it certainly is not anything covered by Normal.dot, add-ins, or the printer driver, so I'm out of ideas. I guess you could try repairing or reinstalling Word. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA >> The issue I was addressing (as being limited to Word 2000) was of being >> unable to customize the columns. Since the Open and Save dialogs in Word [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] > Explorer. The Details and List views work just fine except in Word > 2000. > Well, I don't see how this could be a Registry issue, and, even if it were, > I wouldn't know what key to suggest nuking. And it certainly is not anything [quoted text clipped - 112 lines] > > Explorer. TheDetailsandListviews work just fine except in Word > > 2000. Finally found it. The problem was the far-right columns, were indvidually pulled to the left concealing everything but the filename. *However* depending on where the separator was located, pulling it and double-clicking the column separator would not reveal the hidden columns. It seems it took a sequence of double-clicks and possibly right-pulls to finally reveal the hidden columns. Can't say I ever ran into a case where the separator double-click didn't expand to reveal what was underneath. What a pain that was. I figured it had to be something weird like that, but I don't have enough experience with customizing these settings to have learned as much about it as you evidently have. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA >> Well, I don't see how this could be a Registry issue, and, even if it >> were, [quoted text clipped - 136 lines] > reveal what was underneath. > What a pain that was. |
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